CVE-2026-86351CWE-20CWE-601

MISP User Homepage Validation Allows Authenticated Open Redirect via Protocol-Relative URL

Medium · published September 7, 2026

CVSS v4.0
5.1
EPSS
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Affected versions of MISP validate the user-configurable homepage by checking only whether the supplied path begins with /. That check is insufficient because protocol-relative URLs such as //attacker.example also begin with / but resolve to an external origin in browsers.

The vulnerable homepage value can be stored as a user setting and later used by the post-login routing logic. The commit explicitly identifies //attacker.example as a payload that passed validation and was emitted to the Location header after login.

The fix introduces a shared InternalRedirectValidator that rejects URLs containing a host, scheme, userinfo, unsafe leading // or /\, malformed URLs, and control characters. It also revalidates homepage settings on read so legacy or internally written unsafe values cannot bypass the new storage-time validation.

Version affected: ≤2.5.45

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
EPSS
Not scored
Weaknesses
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation; CWE-601 · URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
Published
2026-09-07T09:59Z
Timeline
  • 07 SEP 09:59Z
    MISP User Homepage Validation Allows Authenticated Open Redirect via Protocol-Relative URL
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